The Damascus Bureau

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Social Media News No. 18

The opposition conference held in Damascus on June 27 sparked a fierce debate in social networking circles. The conference, which supported the peaceful uprising in Syria and demanded freedom and democracy, focused on practical ways to organise different social groups. According to the organisers, the participants were independent figures and non-partisan opponents who do not [...]

Syrian activists set up news services on Facebook

SMN No. 17, April 26, 2011 Two new Facebook pages provide news updates in English about the Syrian uprising.The page “Monitoring Protests in Syria” defines itself as “an online page for monitoring human rights violations during the protests in Syria”, and connects itself to the page of the American organization “Human Rights Watch”. [...]

Updates on turmoil in Syria

SMN No. 16, April 13, 2011 The website “Syria Leaks” gathers news and footage from social media channels on the uprising in Syria. The website whose name alludes to the famous “Wikileaks” platform, provides “an updated daily blog of news and events from the revolution in Syria, with videos and pictures”. Sources for the news [...]

Syrian Revolution Digest, April 9, 2011

As exact figures of the dead and wounded from Friday’s upheaval are still being worked out, more casualties are reported on Saturday as violent security-led crackdown continues to unfold throughout Syria. Today was a day of mourning and burying some of the dead whose bodies could be located and identified. But it was also a [...]

Regards from Tunis:

Open letter to the Syrian Embassador in Tunis

Journalists, human right defenders and social media activists across the Arab world are watching the events in Syria closely, following day to day developments on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, websites and blogs. In Tunisia, from where the revolutionary spark spread to other Arab countries after the popular uprising brought down Tunisian dictator Ben Ali in January [...]

Syrian Intellectuals Ask: Why Are We Banned From Travelling?

SMN No. 14, February 16, 2011 A number of Syrian writers and intellectuals have created a Facebook group calling for the abolition of a travel ban which imposed by the security services on some citizens without any legal documents or court order. The group, which attracted about 200 members within hours of being set up [...]

No Revolution by Remote Control

Through My Eyes: By a Syrian Human Rights Activist Damascus, February 8, 2011 This is a call for hope, don’t get me wrong. What is happening in the region gives us a long needed rush of optimism to stand up and tell the world, but first of all ourselves, that we too deserve a life [...]

Pro-regime Media Rallies Against Facebook Protests

SMN No. 13, February 2, 2011 The pro-government media in Syria has hit back at calls on Facebook by Syrian activists for demonstrations following the recent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Syrians have launched a number of Facebook pages calling for similar change in Syria and organising protest events, including a number planned for February [...]

Cartoons as way of dialogue in the virtual world

SMN No. 11, November 10, 2010 Through the internet, the well-known Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat is turning caricature from a passive art form into one encouraging interaction and participation amongst the growing Syrian online community. Farzat’s website - which displays cartoons mocking aspects of Syrian and Arab political, social and economic life - as well [...]

Conservatives mobilize against Syrian drama

SMN No. 10, October 18, 2010 A number of Syrian netizens launched an online campaign against a Syrian television programmes they accused of “corrupting young minds” and undermining social and religious values. Entitled “Boycott corrupting and corrupted Syrian drama and its supporters and funders,” a Facebook group claimed it wanted to improve the cultural tastes [...]

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